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The Barcode Add-in is not compatible with online versions of Office 365 or
with versions after Office 2013. The
VBA Module is
the recommended solution for natively installed versions of Office 365, Office
2013 and 2016.

Mail-Merge Barcoding

The only method of barcoding in a Word mail-merge document is to use
barcode fonts. Automating the printing of self-checking fonts for a Word
mail-merge is easy. All that is needed is to make sure the start and stop
characters appear directly before and after the data in the barcode. For
example, to
print the Code 39 Fonts from a MS Word mail merge, use !«FieldName»!
for the merge field where FieldName is the name of the
field to merge. This entire set of characters must have the barcode font
selected for it, even though it will not look correct in the main document.
After the merge is performed, "«" and "»" will be removed and FieldName
will be replaced with the text in the data source.

If the self-checking fonts are not used, then the data will need to be
retrieved from Access or Excel where the font is already formatted in the
data source. An example of this is found in the
Word and Excel Mail-Merge Tutorial.

Code-39 Fonts in
Word:

Self-checking fonts such as
Code 39 have checking
codes built-in, which makes implementation on a MAC or Windows easy. In the
event Code-39 or Codabar cannot be used, IDAutomation provides the
MS Office Macro VBA
and AppleScript
to automatically format more complex barcode fonts.

Self-checking fonts are
easy-to-use in Word as well as other applications and can be entered directly
from the keyboard. For example, to create a barcode that encodes the data
"1234ABCD" with the Code 39 Font: